Trump suggests his endorsement will be key

Donald Trump is trying to set the record straight: He actually had a blast at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and just wasn’t sure how he was supposed to react to being taunted by the president.

Trump also calls himself ratings gold, evaluates the GOP hopefuls and suggests his own endorsement is the one worth waiting for. And based on their treks to Trump Tower, some seem to think so too.

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“The Republican field has several good candidates in the race — most of whom have come to see me at my office in Trump Tower,” The Donald writes in his new book, out this week. “The reason they come to see me isn’t just because I am a nice person but because millions of people listen to what I say and know I ‘get it.’ Some magazines have said I am the single most important endorsement a presidential candidate can have. I don’t know if that’s true, but it wouldn’t surprise me. I don’t say that to brag; I just tell it like it is.”

“Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again,” put out by the conservative publishing house Regnery, focuses heavily on the frequent fire-breathing cable news network guest, developer and reality TV star’s prescriptions for nation-curing.

The book reads like a Trump interview on TV — he volunteers to show the reader proof that Jon Huntsman called him and asked to speak with him, questions why President Barack Obama gets so much credit for Osama bin Laden’s death and begins sentences with, “Here’s the deal.”

He claims credit for creating Lady Gaga.

“She became a big star and maybe she became a star because I put her on the Miss Universe Pageant. It’s very possible, who knows what would have happened without it, because she caused a sensation,” he writes.

Chapters are entitled “Get tough,” “Take the Oil,” “Tax China to Save American Jobs,” “A Safety Net, Not a Hammock” — all hitting on the same protectionist, smaller government themes that Trump strummed when he toyed with a presidential run back in the spring, harnessing a take-the-fight-to-Obama message that left an imprint on how the GOP primary candidates have campaigned.

Trump wraps the book with an afterward on “The Press and the Presidency,” in which he lambastes by name reporters he felt were dishonest, recaps some of the more notable moments of his exploratory effort and evaluates the GOP hopefuls who had come to meet with him prior to the book going to press.

“I think I’ve had a very big impact [on the course of the race], and they’re not coming up to ask me for money, they’re coming up to ask me for an endorsement,” Trump told POLITICO in an interview last week about the book.

“I love the country, and they’re talking about the wrong things,” he says of the current White House, in a refrain that helped him stoke polls earlier this year. “We use to be one of the great [countries] and now we’re a laughingstock.”

Trump didn’t rule out an independent run himself, either in the book or in his POLITICO interview, when asked whether he would be willing to run with the group Americans Elect, which is trying to get on the ballot for a third-party candidacy in every state. But he says his NBC show “The Apprentice” — which he cited in pulling out of the race in the spring — would keep him from running, because of equal time laws and his contract.

Trump said he will most likely endorse in the GOP race but didn’t put a timeframe on it.

In the last chapter, he writes up the field of hopefuls who have come to see him.

Libbers surely have a lot to say about a self made billionaire. Oh, and he didn't make his money in the public sector, it was in the private sector. I think if Trump has anything to say to the American public on how to be successful in the private sector, it is worth listening to. Or? Are we supposed to let theObama lecture us on how to be successful. I mean, his incredible failure of a life should inspire us to follow him, right? America under Trump's leadership would look very much different from our current version of America. Libbers are afraid of prosperity and would prefer to live hand to mouth off of food stamps and welfare. I like Trump's "a safety net, not a hammock." Trump rock on!

Kathy5, you're always talking about being kind and respectful. Do you have anything to say about all the Trump bashing going on in this thread? No? I mean, you'd be screaming racism and bloody murder if people dared to talk about the sacred Obama in such a fashion. Posters are even posting doctored photographs of Trump to make fun of him. This is what you call American? So sad...

I'm sorry, but Neo in the Matrix, how can you say Obama is a failure in life? He's an ivy league graduate who grew up with his grandparents and no father or mother around him. He built himself from the ground up and now he's the president of the United States of America. I'm not sure if the term 'loser' applies to him.

Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, Donald Trump now has high merit in the Republican party. Think about that, a man who makes reality TV shows for a living is the new De facto leader of the GOP. Sad, sad day...

Trump and his reality based unreal motif was recognized well by Dr. Ron Paul who cites George Washington and Other real Americans. Just because Trump got a nice contract from Jeff Immelt of GE and a platform for more Don King PROMO makes him a sour, biased player in place to guide (If you will) the luke-warm minds of people that know just about absolutely nothing.

One merely needs to see the two minute synopis of Nuke Grin Grinch in Ron Paul's AD.

O Yea - Newt Gingrich is ((( THE ))) Paragon of Virtue. His previous style will be sharpened if we can get him in and he'll hate American people so much that he'll do anything necessary through hook, crook, or knife,

What an HONOR it will be! A really steller moment... About this time enter Mario Lanza for a brief not or two singing one of Buck's favorites. O Yea, we'll be in high-cotton then for certain. O yes absolutely... Newt is a real god... And MSM remember you are a PAYEE so do NOT mention Ron Paul until the coast is clear. Jeff Immelt will let you know, or R. HAAS as surrogate. We've seen the light and many of us "THE LIGHT" [emphasis Bible] So Just Stop It!.. for former Pat the Candidate .. and You Catholics claiming some station but Ye forgot the Sin of Omission. Yep, now you remember that there are Sins of Commission and Sins of Omision. (SP).. dern Editor never werks. At least Alex Jones of Infowars.com tells truth.

Omitting Truth is deceptive behaviour? Be It Stipulated..... Omit Ron Paul by name at MIN.